Pakistan

Nokia started shipping the Nokia N8 smartphone less than a week ago and as promised, the phone is available for consumers’ pleasure around the world. It has already begun deliveries to users in some countries who pre-ordered the device and in the process of taking orders in others. Now, for the first time, Nokia have […]

The High Court of the Pakistani city Lahore has ordered the country’s Telecommunication authorities to monitor popular search engines and block about 17 sites carrying offensive material. The engines and sites being monitored include Google, Yahoo, Bing, MSN, YouTube and Wikipedia. The order came after a case was filed in the city’s High court by […]

After a Facebook ban in Pakistan and Bangladesh, China has blocked access to another social networking tool ‘Foursquare’ after a huge number of users were checking in to Tiananmen Square on the site. It’s the 21st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre when more than 3000 protestors including students protesting against Communism were shot and […]

Pakistan officially lifted the Lahore High Court ordered ban on Facebook early Monday after Facebook officials apologized and assured of stricter control over hurtful and offensive content in future. The offensive pages will remain blocked. The ban ordered on the 19th of May was to be carried out till the 31st so Facebook was not […]